The highest court ruled that former justice minister Pelikan violated the rights of an alleged Russian hacker by allowing his extradition to the U.S. before a separate asylum case was finalized. Yevgeniy Nikulin is accused of hacking computers at LinkedIn, Dropbox and other American companies in 2012, compromising the personal information of millions of Americans. ...
A Czech publication Respekt has just published a story which provides more detail on a recent successful intelligence operation carried out by country’s BIS counterintelligence service, an agency that has been criticized for incompetence by President Miloš Zeman. The weekly says that BIS shut down a group of Russian hackers, who were part of ...
Prague, March 27 (CTK) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan believes that the Czech Republic will extradite alleged Russian hacker Yevgenyi Nikulin to the United States, he told a press conference following a speech he delivered in the lower house of Czech parliament today. Russia applied for Nikulin’s extradition as well. ...
Prague, March 16 (CTK) – Alleged Russian hacker Yevgenyi Nikulin who faces extradition to the United States or Russia has no right to Czech asylum, the Prague Municipal Court ruled today. Judge Dana Cerna said the only reason why Nikulin complained against the Interior Ministry’s decision not to grant asylum to him seems to ...
Brno, March 13 (CTK) – Suspected Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin cannot be extradited for prosecution abroad for now as the Czech Constitutional Court (US) has suspended the execution of a Prague court’s decision on the extradition admissibility pending its own decision on Nikulin’s complaint. The US decided on the adjournment in February, and the ...
Prague, March 11 (CTK) – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) may again offer talks about the government programme and participation in the government to the right-wing opposition Civic Democratic Party (ODS), he told public Czech Television (CT) today. “I am considering it. I must consult with my colleagues, I am not the only ...
Prague, March 9 (CTK) – Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) will try to accelerate his talks on a new government he is conducting and he will inform President Milos Zeman about the effort in late March, Babis told journalists after meeting trade union leader Bohumir Dufek today. Babis said ANO was preparing another meeting ...
Prague, March 9 (CTK) – Prime Minister Andrej Babis plans to replace Robert Pelikan (both ANO) with the flexible Petr Mlsna as justice minister in his next cabinet, daily Lidove noviny (LN) writes today, adding that President Milos Zeman wants to prevent alleged Russian hacker’s extradition to the USA in this way. Alleged Russian ...
Prague, March 7 (CTK) – The Czech Republic has appeared in a power game between the USA and Russia, both of which are demanding the extradition of alleged Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin to them, daily Lidove noviny (HN) writes today. The Donald Trump Administration considers the case the number one problem in Czech-U.S. relations, ...
